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Splice

Meaning in networking & telecommunications, with examples

/splaɪs/verbAdvanced term

In networking & telecommunications, splice means: To join two optical fibres end to end so that light passes from one to the other with as little loss as possible, usually by melting them together with a fusion splicer.

In Turkish: ek yapmak, eklemek, füzyon ek yapmak

How it is used

Used by fibre technicians, as a verb and a noun: splice a fibre, a splice closure, a bad splice. After a cable cut, crews splice the broken fibres back together. Each splice adds a small loss, typically well under 0.1 dB for a good fusion splice.

Example sentences

  1. The crew has found the cut and will splice the 96 fibres one by one.

  2. The OTDR trace shows a bad splice about 3 km from the exchange.

Common collocations

  • splice a fibre
  • fusion splice
  • splice closure
  • splice loss
  • fusion splicer
  • fibre optic cableA cable that carries data as pulses of light through very thin strands of glass, allowing much higher speeds and much longer distances than copper.
  • attenuationThe gradual loss of signal strength as a signal travels along a cable or through the air, measured in decibels (dB), often per kilometre for fibre.
  • single-mode fibreA type of optical fibre with a very thin core, about 9 micrometres across, that carries light along a single path and can send data over many kilometres; used by operators and between buildings.
  • FTTHShort for fibre to the home: a broadband setup in which optical fibre runs all the way to the customer's home, instead of ending at a street cabinet and continuing over copper.

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